User blog comment:Cortez Firebrush/The Battle of Bornegascar/@comment-2246928-20190615222719

@Gren

From the top of a tall flat-stone hill overlooking the whole of the southern beach, from behind a firm circle of sandbags, Captain Czurin peered through her binoculars at the four battleships sitting in the waves, flags bearing a golden owl with wings outstretched upon a royal blue background fluttering in the wind and cannons firing. The stoat nodded grimly and offered the binoculars to the fox captain next to her, as another thunderous boom echoed throughout the beach and another sizeable hole was made, sending a blast of sand jetting up into the sky. With Bruge and Czurin's forces planted in shallow trenches behind the cover of jungle and rock at the far end of the beach, there haven't been any casualties yet, but knowing Finnian's tactics, there'd be some soon.

"According to our intel, Finnian's got twelve ships. He must've split them and sent the rest to other sides of the island, but that big black ship at the back of the other three is his personal flagship. The CRS Courage. They'll be releasing some more fire as they approach, but once he's found where are troops are and given us some damage he'll likely be sending his rifles forward to take the beach."

Bruge and Czurin each command 48 soldiers, as well as four 18-pounder guns and twelve gatling guns. Barbed wire is lined along the beach, and large caltrops and spike pits are buried in the sand. The shallow trenches behind the line of thick, viny jungle trees are lined with sandbags, with a eight gatling guns. Soldiers are also hidden among the rocks and hill overlooking the beach, with the other gatling guns hidden with them and trained on the beach and the four 18-pounders are each placed on one of several flat hills, trained on the ships and each watched over by a lieutenant.